First and Last Name distributions

#1

What are the distributions used for First and Last names? I would like to generate names consistent with most common names in the US (according to US Census). Is there a way to do this?

If I use datasets to generate names using my own distribution, how can I link the Gender to First Name?

Thanks,
–Jakov

#2

There isn’t a way to control the distribution other than uploading your own list of names as a Dataset. The names in Mockaroo are pulled from common names around the world, but probably biased towards Europe and North America.

#3

Thanks. I ended up using datasets. Works well. The trick was to combine both male, female name, and gender in the same dataset. Mockaroo will link all data coming from the same data sets.